Goobuntu

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 17:14 -0700, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> > An interesting article about Google's next step in taking over the
> > world:
>> Google has denied this rumor.
>>http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060131-6087.html>
Didn't Nintendo deny their redesign of the Nintendo DS when it was
leaked, then a while later come back announce the redesign?
Why do businesses try to keep things secret to the point of lying about
them? Stock value? Competitive edge?